usaa bra ings retirement advi. (male announcer) this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. (hammer) >> the sound of hammers. now heard again in california. new employment figures out today show the state's construction industry is finally reviving. grant lodes is here with the latest numbers from washington. >> yeah they are not all good. california still has the country's worst unemployment rate. for the past three months, california's unemployment rate has been stuck at nine=point=eight percent. the federal bureau of labor statistics says that's nearly two points above the national average of seven point nine percent. but over the last year, california has added more than a quarter=million jobs. that's more than any other state. except texas. now let's drill down to the construction industry. nationally, employment in that sector increased by 28=thousand. one quarter of that total was in california. and thesee numbers are from january, not the busiest time of the year for contractors. economists s